Jackson isn’t doubling down on a playoff prediction for this upcoming season, but on Wednesday he went on the Jim Rome show and made it clear that the Warriors aren’t a 23-43 team.

“We’re closer than that,” Jackson said. “At the end of the day, we are what our record said we were. But we’re much closer. You take a look … we closed the season with our four best players injured (Andrew Bogut, Stephen Curry, David Lee and Dorell Wright). … We are much better than our record indicated.

“But we’re going to have to get healthy and then continue to build toward putting some proper pieces around our star pieces.”